Education

Satyam, and his classmate Harshita Rao, 17, won bronze medals in chemistry at the international competition held in the first week of September in Moscow, becoming the first team from a government school to bring home a medal. When 17-year-old Satyam, studying in a government school, applied to

On Teacher’s Day, Tamil Nadu’s school education minister K A Sengottaiayan took everyone by surprise when he announced a bold new scheme that aims to turn old fashioned classrooms into digital ones. Sengottaiayan had just returned from Finland, where he studied their model of the school education

When a seven-year-old student at a leading south Delhi school was identified to be suffering from learning disorders dyslexia and dyscalculia, he was provided regular counselling and is now making good progress. Another three-year-old student was severely withdrawn and avoided interaction until it

केंद्रीय मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्री रमेश पोखरियाल ‘निशंक’ ने स्कूली शिक्षा के क्षेत्र को मजबूती देने के मकसद से विश्व के सबसे बड़े ऑनलाइन जंक्शनों में शामिल एकीकृत ऑनलाइन जंक्शन ‘स्कूल एजुकेशन शगुन’ का शुभारंभ आज नई दिल्ली में किया। इस ऑनलाइन जंक्शन के जरिए स्कूली शिक्षा से जुड़े सभी ऑनलाइन पोर्टल्स

Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ launched one of world’s largest Integrated Online Junction for – School Education ‘Shagun’ in New Delhi today. School Education Shagun (URL: htpp://shagun.govt.in/) is an over-arching initiative to improve school education system

In 2002, when Jagjit Singh Walia joined as an elementary teacher, the sight that greeted him at the Government Primary School in Moosa, in Punjab’s Mansa district, was of children sitting in corridors, a few others in the sun, and still others running around in the open ground. There were not enough

The UGC, in its 542 ndmeeting held on 02 nd August 2019 has considered the reports of the Empowered Expert Committee (EEC) appointed by Government under the Chairmanship of N Gopalaswami recommending (15) Public institutions and (15) Private institutions for considering to give status of

The country’s premier engineering colleges – the IITs – could from December onwards have hundreds of students and researchers from Asean countries on their ranks as the Union HRD ministry is looking east to fulfil its twin objectives of getting more international students and boosting research. The

Inside a classroom at the Government High School (GHS) at Kaksar village near the Line of Control in Ladakh, Sajad Hussain is delivering a lecture. “Today, I will teach you about democracy,” Hussain tells a group of girls. As the country commemorates the 20th anniversary of Kargil war, this school

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to regulate the whole process of admission to classes 9 and 11 in all its affiliated schools across the country from next year. Board has formulated the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to standardise admissions in these classes which

All have heard of Super 30, which was started by Anand Kumar in 2002 for coaching underprivileged children to get into the prestigious IIT. Kumar is Patna based and has gained international attention, for training poor backward students to crack IIT-JEE. And every year the results have shown how

To attract foreign students and faculty to its campus, IIT Delhi Wednesday organised a summit meeting on “Globalization of IIT Delhi: New Opportunities for Higher Studies in India”. After being given the Institute of Eminence (IoE) tag, IIT has already admitted 70 students to various postgraduate